linux-kernel - Re: PATA-disk named sda

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Message-Id: <200707061413.53182.surenkarapetyan@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:13:42 +0500
From:	Suren Karapetyan <surenkarapetyan@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@...uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATA-disk named sda

On Friday 06 July 2007 13:21:32 Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the newest Ubuntu Release, my PATA-disk is called sda instead of hda.
> Is that a general feature in newer kernel versions or is it a special
> feature in Ubuntu?
>
> Regards
>   Christoph
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In recent kernels both PATA and SATA (SCSI too) drives are handled by libata 
library. It calls all the drives sd* . 
More info: http://linux-ata.org/
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